the test for parties from North to South – Corriere.it

Sunday and Monday we vote in 596 Municipalities. Among these are 13 provincial capitals: Brescia, Sondrio, Vicenza, Treviso, Massa, Imperia, Ancona, Pisa, Siena, Terni, Latina, Brindisi, Teramo: 8 outgoing mayors are centre-right, while 5 are centre-left.

Including the cities of Sicily and Sardinia, where the vote will take place on 28 and 29 May, 793 Municipalities are involved and over 6 million voters will be called to the polls. The results of this round, although of a local nature, will nonetheless have a political value on several fronts. For Elly Schlein this is the first real test since she became secretary of the Pd. The primary objective of the Nazarene is to be able to confirm itself in the 5 cities where the centre-left holds the outgoing mayor. While to understand if the china dem is concretely on the rise (and not only in the polls), the Democratic Party aims to reconquer two historically “red” cities today in the hands of the center-right: Siena and Pisa. In the former “capital” of Mps, the outgoing mayor Luigi De Mossi (considered too close to Salvini) was dismissed by FdI, so the center-right struggled a lot to find a common candidate: Nicoletta Fabio. An all-female challenge, therefore, given that her main challenger will be Anna Ferretti of the Pd. But the picture is very fragmented: Italia viva has a candidate distinct from that of Action and the M5S will run alone.

In Pisathe outgoing Michael Conti runs for an encore supported by the entire center-right, while in the shadow of the Leaning Tower there is one of the few common laboratories between Pd and Movimento, which have a common candidate to attempt a counter-reversal after the coup de scene five years ago: Paul Martinelli.

Always with a view to reconquest, the center-left will try to return to the helm of Vicenza with the young man Giacomo Possamaiwho will deal with the outgoing Francis Rucco.

The centre-right, although favored at the starting line, has invested significant resources in this electoral campaign. In fact, the big names took the stage together to support the candidates from Brescia and Ancona, where Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Matteo Salvini and Antonio Tajani spent themselves personally trying to wrest the cities from the left. in Brescia, the candidate is the Northern League Fabio Rolfiwho will deal with Laura Castellettioutgoing deputy mayor and right-hand man of the outgoing mayor Emilio Del Bono, elected in the Lombardy Region with a record of preferences. in Anconaafter 10 years of government of the dem Valeria Mancinelli, the united center-right will attempt the coup with Daniel Silvettiwhich he will try to beat Ida Simonellasupported by the entire centre-left.

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